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SCAM OF THE WEEK
[Scam of the Week] Warn Your Employees About New Zoom Phishing Attacks Zoom-themed phishing attacks have spiked since the start of the pandemic. We are seeing both Zoom and...
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10NovRead More
Almost Half Of Ransomware Attacks Now Involve Data Exfiltration And Extortion
In the article, “Almost Half Of Ransomware Attacks Now Involve Data Exfiltration And Extortion,” KnowBe4 and CyberWire reported that for the third quarter of 2020 nearly half of ransomware attacks...
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29SepRead More
Why Free AV is not a wise choice when Protecting Your Data
Members of the hacking group “APT41” were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for hacking more than 100 victims globally with one of its members running AV vendor...
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11SepRead More
5 Ways to Detect a Phishing Email
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain your sensitive information or data, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Simply, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in...
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06AugRead More
Paid vs Free Internet Antivirus Solutions
Will free anti-virus solutions protect you against common, known computer viruses? Perhaps the answer is yes. However, they may leave you vulnerable to yet-unknown threats. If you choose Windows Defender as...
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02AugRead More
Taking advantage of Human nature…
What is a social engineering attack? It is a way of getting your credentials, access to your systems and your data. It is a combination of three main flaws...
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17JulRead More
They went phishing at Twitter…
PHISHING Phishing does not refer to the peaceful act of standing by a river tossing a baited hook into the water and hoping for dinner. Phishing does refer to...
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10JulRead More
Here are some things to ponder
Every day I read news stories about the exploits of cyber criminals and how they broke this or that. Every day I shake my head at how apparently easy...
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02JunRead More
Website Assessment – FREE
This week, the news was bad. I do not mean the news headlines leading the television broadcasts. I mean the news that goes by, unheralded and only discussed in...
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25MayRead More
Zero-Day Attacks and what that means
A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software that the vendor has yet to patch. This leaves the windows wide open for a cyber-criminal to exploit it. The cyber-criminal...
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